Selenops

Welcome to Selenops, a Swift Web Crawler.

Given a webpage url and a word to search, Selenops will look for said word in that page, and all pages linked in there, recursively.

Usage

import Selenops

// Initialize crawler.
let crawler = Crawler(
  startURL: URL(string: "https://fivestars.blog/")!,
  maximumPagesToVisit: 10,
  wordToSearch: "Swift" // Specify the word to search here.
)

// Set delegate.
crawler.delegate = ... // Needs to conform to CrawlerDelegate

// Start crawling!
crawler.start()

The crawler delegate will get information such as visited webpages, and in which webpages the specified word has been found.

Installation

Selenops is distributed via the Swift Package Manager:

• to use it into an app, follow this tutorial and use this repository URL: https://github.com/zntfdr/Selenops.git.

• to use it in a package, add it as a dependency in your Package.swift:

 let package = Package(
     ...
     dependencies: [
         .package(url: "https://github.com/zntfdr/Selenops.git", from: "2.0.0")
     ],
     targets: [
        .target(
            ...
            dependencies: ["Selenops"])
     ],
     ...
 )

…and then use import Selenops whenever necessary.

Command line tool

Selenops also comes with a command line tool that showcases its functionality.

To install it, clone the project and run make:

$ git clone https://github.com/zntfdr/Selenops.git
$ cd Selenops
$ make

Credits

Selenops was built by Federico Zanetello as an example of a Swift script.

Contributions and Support

All users are welcome and encouraged to become active participants in the project continued development — by fixing any bug that they encounter, or by improving the documentation wherever it’s found to be lacking.

If you’d like to make a change, please open a Pull Request, even if it just contains a draft of the changes you’re planning, or a test that reproduces an issue.

Thank you and please enjoy using Selenops!